Robbers strike at hotel

Carjackers struck a Virginia woman who'd just checked into the Wingate Inn off Ga. 204 early Tuesday morning before leading police on a high-speed chase.

Kathy I. McClintock of Stafford, Va, told officers a man got out of a red sedan in the hotel's parking lot and pointed a pistol at her as she unloaded her luggage, according to an incident report.

The man then told McClintock, 51, to hand over her keys, let her get out of his way and drove her 2001, white Lincoln Town Car away.

After the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department posted a lookout, a patrol officer spotted the car on Abercorn Street. According to police spokesman Bucky Burnsed, the driver led the officer on a short chase in the northbound lanes.

The officer ended the chase because the carjacker was "driving wildly," Burnsed said, adding that according to department policy officers are supposed to end chases when their safety and that of the public becomes compromised.